The Nouveaux Honkies Play the Garden

Bubbling Americana Gumbo of Blues, Country, Roots & Texas Swing! $5 cover starts at 7 p.m. Music at 8:30.

Somewhere around the middle of the Natchez Trace Parkway, halfway between the (in)famous crossroads of Clarksdale, MS, and Nashville, home of The Grand Old Opry and the Ryman, lays the spiritual home of The Nouveaux Honkies. That’s where you’re halfway between blues and country. Those two genres aren’t always too related, but Hank Williams, for one, knew they were kinfolk. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry practically defines twangy blues. The Honkies sophomore album explores that relationship a little more fully.”

“The Nouveaux Honkies represent so much of what’s good about Americana music today.” (Twangville.com Shawn Underwood)